Machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies.



110.732,475; PATENTBD 111111130, 1903.

A. B. WARING.

MACHINE FOR FORMING NAPPED` BATS FOR HAT BODIES.

'l APPLICATION FILED'MA-n. 12. 1902.

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MACHINE POR FORMIN'G NAPPEDBATS PoR HAT BODIES.

APPLIUATION FILAEDMAR. 12| 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented June'O, 1903-.

PATENT OEEICE.

ARTHUR E. WARING, oF YoNKEEs, NEW YORK'.

'srEcIFIcA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,475, dated .runs 3o, 1903;

Application filed March 12. 1902.

To @ZZ whom t may concern;

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. WARING, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident ofYonkers, in the countyof W'est-v chester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Forming Napped Bats for Hat- Bodies, of which the following is a speeication.

This invention relates to machines for forming napped bats for hat-bodies by which a nap is formed and is so confined that a felted article or hat-body may be applied thereto for the eventual purpose of producing a hat with a napped surface. In forming-machines of this class heretofore in use the tru nk through which the fibrous material is sucked onto the cone or disk to receive the nap was stationary and the cone or disk had to be removed before the felted body could be placed on the nap, the consequence of which was that the shifting of the nap resulted in an objectionable disarrangement of the bers or a breaking of t-hesame.

Themain object of the present invention is to providea forming-machine in which the shifting of the nap for the placing of the felted body thereupon is avoided. This is accomplished by the provision of a movable trunk, which permits the felted article or hat-body to be placed upon the nap before the cone or disk is removed lfrom the holder of the former. While the hat-body is being placed upon the nap, the nap is held in placev without disarrangement by the suction through the perforated cone or disk.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a forming-machine in Which the trunk is so constructed as that it will accommodate itself to the edges of cones or disks of various diameters against which the trunk may be set, also to provide a practically air-tightjoint at the meeting edges of the trunk and the coneior disk, thereby preventing an unequal distribution of the fibrous material on the cone, which would result if there were any chance for the exterior air to be sucked in through a crack or space between the adjacent edges of the trunk and cone or disk.

With this end in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and Serial No. 97.832. (No model.)

combinations of parts to be hereinafter de scribed and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying two sheets ofdrawings,'Figure lis a side elevation of a machine for forming napped bats in accordance with my invention. same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the' main parts of the machine enlarged, showing the same in using position. Fig. 4 is a similar section showing the distributingtrunk moved away from the holder of the forming-machine, so that the perforated cone or disk may be lifted out after the felted article or hat-body has been applied tothe nap. Fig. 5 is a planview of the perforated cone or disk. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 7 is a transverse section of the perforated cone or disk. Figs. 8 and 9 are edge and plan views of the holder for the disk, and Fig. 10 is a sectional detail showing a modification.

Referring to the drawings, the main frame l of the machine is of suitable construction and carries, as usual, guide-rollers 2 for an endless apron 3, at the delivery end of which is a pair of lfeed-rollers 4 for feeding the fibrous 'material which is placed upon the apron 3 to a pickercylinder 5 in the well-known manner. The picker-cylinder 5 is provided with a shaft-6, journaled in suitable bearings of the main frame 1, and is provided with a pulley 7, so that thepicker may be driven at a rapid rate from a suitable power-transmitting mechanism, whiehis adapted to infturn impart a slow speed to the traveling apron 3 and also to the perforated cone or disk 8, to be hereinafter described. The details ofthe power-driven mechanism are not esssntial, as any suitable form of mechanism may be resorted to.

The picker-cylinder 5 is housed Within a stationary casing 9, suitably supported on the main frame l and provided with .an-opening '10,in Which the feed-rollers 4 are located. Mounted on the opposite openY portion ofthe casing is a movable trunk 1l, preferably elbow-shaped and formed of sheet metal, and the adjacent edges of which trunk and casing correspond and fit together practically air-tight. The connection between the casing and the trunk is formed by means of a Fig. 2 is a plan View of the IOO pivot-pin 12, which passes through suitable ears or lugs 13 14 on the casing and trunk, respectively, so that a hinge connection for the trunk is provided, thereby permitting the trunk to be sw-ung or adjusted by suitable means. This means, in the present instance, consists, preferably, of a suitable treadle 15, adapted to exert a pull upon a rope 16, attached to and trained over a segmental pulley 17, which is mounted on a rock-shaft 18, journaled in suitable bearings 19 and supporting a pulley 20, over which is trained a rope 2l, connected on the one hand with a suitable eye 22 on the back of the trunk and carrying a counterweight By this means the trun k may be lifted by pressing upon the treadle, and when the pressure is released the trunk will settle gently back to position, due to the restraining tendency of the countere weight Of course the invention is not necessarily limited to a trunk movable perpendicularly, as it is within the power of skilled mechanics to construct it to move in any direction, as sidewise, without avoiding the scope and spirit of the invention.

The mouth of the trunk is adapted to center over a suction-chest 24, on the top of which revolves the turn-table 25, on which rests the disk-holder 2G of the former. The turn-table 25 has a series of peripheral teeth 25 intermeshed bya suitably-operated driving-gear 27. An eduction-pipe 2S, leading to asuitable exhaustorsuction fan,(not shown,) leads from the suction-chest 24, so that suction may be exerted on the perforated cone or disk which may be placed in the holder 26.

The perforated cone or disk 8 (shown more particularly in Figs. 5, G, and 7) consists of an interstitial plate formed by a perforated plate or awire screen 29, which is reinforced, strengthened, and retained in an annular rim 30, which consists, preferably, of an upper and a lower section between which the said screen, to be hereinafter designated the cone or disk bottem,7 is placed. The cone or disk so formed is equipped with diametrical handles or grips 31, whereby the same may be lowered into the holder of the forming-machine or lifted out of the same. While the cone or disk bottom is preferably flat, as shown, the word cone is used throughout this specification for the reason that it has a distinct meaning in the art.

The described or equivalent means for moving the mouth of the trunk 11 from the edge of the perforated cone or disk with which it is approximately concentric enables the advantage previously stated to be accomplished-that is, the possibility of placing the felted body upon the nap while said nap is held in its position by suction upon the perforated cone or disk.

Perforated cones or disks of different diameters may be set in the holder of the forming-machine, and one object of the invention is to practically, if not absolutely, form an airtight joint between the mouth of the trunk and the adjacent edge of the cone. This may be accomplished by flaring the mouthpiece 32 of the trunk, so that when the trunk is lowered various diameters of cones or disks may snugly fit into it. An alternative construction is shown in Fig. 10, wherein the flare is shown upon the cone or disk, the end of the trunk being without Hare.

By reason of the fact that the mouthpiece is movable and that it has a flare it may besaid to be adjustable to various diameters of cones or disks, for when the mouthpiece is fitted to a cone or disk of one diameter the zone of contact will be of a corresponding diameter, and when a cone ordisk ofa. smaller diameter is substituted the zone of contact will not be the same, but will be of corresponding diameter. So, also, if a cone or disk of larger diameter is substituted for one of smaller diameter the zone of contact will not be the same, but will be of corresponding larger diameter. If the mouthpiece were not movable, this adjustment could not be obtained unless the cone or disk were moved toward it. My invention is not, however, restricted to the specific means shown for accomplishing the purpose in View of forming a joint with the cones or disks.

The flaring mouthpiece 32 is self-adjusting, this being permitted by the provision of a flexible throat 33, which consists of a band or ring of flexible material-such as canvas, rubber, leather, or other suitable yielding or flexible material-which is connected to the main body of the trunk and the mouthpiece by riveting or the like. A distinct advantage is gained by this flexible throat in the trunk in that the mouthpiece 32 of the trunk will more readily form a practically air-tight joint with the adjacent edge of the perforated cone or disk than were such a flexible throat omitted; but the invention is not restricted to the use of the flexible throat. A perfect joint between the mouthpiece of the trunk and the perforated cone or disk is most desirable for the reason that if there be any crack or air-space between the portions which meet or should meet an unequal distribution of the fibrous material on the bottom of the cone or disk results, due to the fact that the outer air is sucked in through the crack or space, causing a thinning of the periphery or outer portion of the nap. In a perfect machine the suctionshould not draw any outer air into the trunk or cone excepting through the casing 9.

When the machine is in operation,the picker breaks up the fibrous material fed to it and discharges the same into the trunk 1l, and the suction acting upon the fibers thrown toward the perforated cone or disk 8 by the picker causes the fibers in the trunk to be evenly distributed over the bottom of the cone or disk, and this is largely due to the fact that the cone or disk is, mounted in a plane approximately parallel with the plane of the delivery-mouth of the trunk, so that IOO IIO

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at one time during the delivery of the brous material the whole perforated or interstitial surface of the cone or disk may be exposed to the delivery-mouth of the trunk. The nap so formed may immediately receive the felted article or hat-body just as soon as the trunk is moved away from the cone. The nap and felted article or hat-body may then be removed, so as to undergo the act ot' sticking them together in any suitable manner.

What I claim as nevvr and of my invention l. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a movable trunk for delivering the fibrous material, and a perforated cone or disk, the whole perforated surface of which is exposed, at one time, during delivery of the fibrous material, to the delivery-mouth of the trunk, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for formi-ng napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a movable trunk for delivering the Iibrous material, and a perforated cone or disk, mounted in a plane approximately parallel with the plane of the delivery-mouth of the trunk, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a stationary supporting-casing, a Vpicker inclosed in the same, a curved trunk With a laterally-directed delivery-mouth, the trunk being movably mounted on the casing, and a perforated cone or disk opposite the delivery-mouth of the trunk, substantially as described.

4. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a stationary supporting-casing, a picker inclosed in the same, a curved trunk With a laterallydirected delivery mouth, the trunk being movably mounted on the casing, and a perforated cone or disk, the Whole perforated surface of which is exposed, during operation, to the delivery-mouth of the trunk, substantially as described. i

5. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a stationary supporting-casing, a picker inclosed in the casing, a trunk with a laterally-directed delivery-mouth, the trunk being movably mounted on the casing, and a rotary perforated cone or disk, turning in a plane approximately parallel With the plane of the delivery-mouth of the trunk, substantially as described.

6. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a casing, a picker therein,a trunk movable relatively to the casing and provided with a laterally-directed delivery-mouth, and a perforated cone or disk opposite the mouth, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a casing, a picker, a trunk hinged at its upper side to the casing, and a perforated cone or disk located below the delivery-mouth of the trunk, substantially as described.

8. In a machine'for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a support, a perforated cone or disk, and a'movable delivery-trunk, mounted on the support, curved toward and closing on the cone or disk, substantially as described.

9. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of an open casing, a perforated cone or disk located to one side of the opening through the casing,

and a trunk movable on the casing and having a delivery-mouth directed laterally toward and closing on the cone or disk, substantially as described.

10. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a perforated cone or disk, and a movable trunk directed toward and closing on it, substantial] y as described.

11. In a machine for forming napped'bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a perforated cone or disk, and a movable trunk directed toward and closing on it, one of said parts of the machine having a '-iiare at the meeting edges, substantially as described.

12. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a perforated cone or disk, and a movable trunk provided With an outwardly-Haring mouthpiece, substantially as described.

13. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a perforated cone or disk, and a trunk provided With a mouthpiece opposite the cone or disk and adjustable to various diameters of cones or disks, substantially as described.

14. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a perforated cone or disk, anda trunk provided With a self-adjusting mouthpiece directed toward the cone or disk, substantially as described.

15. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a perfo.- rated cone or disk, a movable trunk, and a self-adjusting mouthpiece for said trunk, directed toward the cone or disk, substantially as described. f

16. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a trunk, a mouthpiece therefor, a iiexible throat connecting the trunk and the mouthpiece, and a perforated cone or disk opposite the mouthpiece and upon which the mouthpiece seats, substantiallyl as described.

17. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of atrunk, a flaring mouthpiece therefor, a flexible throat connecting the trunk and the mouthpiece, and a perforated cone or disk opposite the mouthpiece, substantially as described.

18. In a machine for forming nappedbats for hat-bodies, the combination of a trunk for delivering fibrous material, a perforated cone or disk, and 4means forming a closed IOO IIO

joint directly between the trunk and cone or disk, substantially as described.

19. In a machine foi` forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a suctionchest, a rotary disk-holder, a perforated cone or disk on the same, and a movable trunk, the delivery-month of which closes on the cone or disk, substantially as described.

20. In a machine for forming napped batsV for hat-bodies, the combination of a suctionchest, a'perforated cone or disk on the same, and a movable trunk havingayielding mouthpiece Whichcloses on the cone or disk, substantially as described.

2l. In a machine for forming napped bats for hat-bodies, the combination of a suctionchest, a perforated cone or disk on the same,

ARTHUR B. WARING.

Witnesses:

L. W. KETCHUM, J ULrUs TACKMAN. 

